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Sovereign received a $4B offer from Sidhu

Was former Sovereign Bankcorp Inc. CEO Jay Sidhu trying to redeem himself? Sovereign may have gotten an offer last month to acquire the bank for almost $4 billion in cash by a bidding party that included Sidhu, who was ousted by the bank's board in 2006 after agreeing to sell a stake in the bank to Banco Santander SA. His offer was twice that of the $1.9 billion bid Banco Santander offered in October to acquire the 75.65% stake in Sovereign that it did not already own. ...


Santander blocks Web site of hedge fund Madoff swindled

Figuring that no news is good news, Spain's largest bank, Banco Santander SA, decided to cut off public access to the Web site of the hedge fund that lost $3.2 billion of its client funds in the $50 billion Madoff Ponzi scheme. ...


European banks tally Madoff losses

European financial institutions on Monday tallied up billions of dollars of potential losses resulting from investment and trading exposures to the alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme masterminded by New York investment adviser Bernard Madoff....


Sovereign loses independence to Santander

The contraction of U.S. banks continues as Banco Santander SA, Spain's largest lender, agreed to buy the 75% of Sovereign Bancorp Inc. that it does not already own for $1.9 billion in stock. The move comes after the U.S.' largest remaining thrift asked its biggest shareholder for an offer....


Santander may grab the rest of Sovereign

Over the last several weeks, Spain's Banco Santander SA has been linked in merger talks with several American banks such as Washington Mutual Inc. and Wachovia Corp. The Madrid-based bank fell short of those two targets. Now, Santander is reportedly close to acquiring a familiar face in the form of Sovereign Bancorp Inc. of Philadephia. ...


Goldman-led group paying $1.5B for ABN's private equity assets

The $1.5 billion price tag finally leaked in ABN Amro Bank's sale of its private equity assets to a consortium led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ...



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